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Doom

2018-08-15T03:09:18Z

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{{topquote|They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you? You will be '''worse'''. [[Rip and Tear]], until it is '''done'''.|A direct order from what is either God's seraphs or [[Khorne]] himself. Seriously, is there really a difference?}}

{{topquote|Remember. Demon can be an offensive term. Refer to them as "mortally challenged".|A quote from a hologram in the upcoming Doom Eternal game. As you would expect, it's already stirred up [[SJW|the usual suspects]] who can't recognize Quisling-style dialogue when they see it.}}

The granddaddy of the first person shooter, the original ass-kicking demon-slaying 3d slaughterfest, ''Doom'' is a franchise that demands respect even in the hallowed halls of /tg/.

Minimalistic in plot, Doom is easy to grasp; you are a Space Marine (no, not the 40K guy, a jumped-up soldier who is sent to fight on other planets, so closer to the [[Imperial Guard]]) stationed on Mars. Somehow, demons break through into our reality and slaughter everyone else on the planet. Your job? Fight your way to where, you hope, there's a ride off of this rock, and make bloody mincemeat out of everything standing between you and salvation. Standing in your way are armies of zombified fellow marines and eggheads, fireball-tossing imps, hulking flesh-eating demons, cyborg-demon monstrosities, and various other hell-spawned nasties who want to kill you horribly. Good luck. You'll need it...

Although not the very ''first'' of the FPS genre (even its predecessor, [[Wolfenstein]] 3D, wasn't the first, as the history of the genre goes back all the way into 70's), Doom was definitive to the genre, so much so that "Doom Clone" was the standard nickname for many years afterwards. And, for the time, it was incredibly dark and gory. To put it in perspective, there's still people playing it and hacking around with the source codes for it to make funner games to play to this day. Hell, Final Doom is a compilation of maps made by two out-of-company designers made just because they could in the 90's!

According to the latest iteration of Doom, the Doom Marine has been tearing up demons from not just one, but ''multiple'' realities, becoming a literal boogieman for the forces of Hell. In that case, the [[Chaos Gods]] better hope that Doomguy never finds his way into their reality, or else they'll quickly learn the true meaning of [[Rip and Tear]]. After all, [[Kaldor Draigo|they've got enough of guys like him as it is!]]

Fun fact: that iconic Doom monster, the Cacodemon, was actually inspired by the artwork for an Astral Dreadnought on the cover of the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition [[Manual of the Planes]] splatbook.

==Adaptations==

===Vidya===
The original Doom was fast-paced and bloody, but not afraid to take breaks for scares, either; there's some really creepy levels in there. Doom II, meanwhile, was even faster-paced, a circle-strafing explosion-rich gorefest that defined the game and the FPS genre in the eyes of its fandom. Plot was bare-minimum: Demons took over Phobos and ate Deimos, kill them all. Or, in Doom 2's case, Demons are trying to infest Earth in revenge, kill them all AGAIN. But this time, ''it's personal''. (No, seriously, they killed your pet bunny Daisy.) There were some other adaptations, an N64 port that played up the scary and Final Doom for the PS1 which had a bunch of fan maps being the most significant of them.

In the early 2000s, Doom 3 came along, following in the example of Doom 64 (the little-remembered N64 port) as a slower-paced, creepy, almost Survival Horror themed game. The plot tries to be a bit deeper, with this prophecy about an alien weapon capable of killing the denizens of Hell once said denizens break out of a UAC portal. There was an expansion pack/semi-sequel in "Resurrection of Evil" that follows up a bit later with an unethical scientist [[Heresy|trying to get his hands on an unholy artifact]] while the new PC tries to keep it out of Hell's hands. Altogether, Doom 3's not a bad game, but it's not the same action-packed thriller that people were expecting after Doom II, wasn't nearly as mod friendly, and Doom eventually went back into obscurity.

Then the latest Doom came out in May 2016. This rendition can basically be described as "3d Brutal Doom II" only sexier, with features like [[Rip and tear|ripping enemies apart with your bare hands]] and having to stay on the move to avoid being torn to shreds. The plot is also about as bare minimum as the original, kicking the player straight into the action with waking up on Mars, immediately [[Rip and tear|smashing a zombie’s skull]], and basically being told “demonic invasion, go kill everything.” Also, the player this time around is someone the demons call the “Doom Slayer", who has traveled through “Worlds and Time” (hinting that this Doomguy could very well be the original Doomguy from the first two games, having also survived Doom 64 and has been traveling Hell since), and millennia ago [[Awesome|kicked Hell’s ass so hard that the best the demons could do is seal him away so that he wouldn’t destroy Hell]]. Then the UAC decides to deal with an Energy Crisis by quite literally [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|slamming an Oil Derrick on a Hell Portal to siphon off Hell Energy for power]], and just for giggles starts tomb raiding Hell for artifacts and treasures as well, ultimately running off with the Doomguy's sarcophagus. The demons see that the Doomguy’s prison/tomb is empty, and the subsequent invasion is actually a panicked attempt to stop the Doomguy from being woken up. Demonkind collectively shits itself as the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SealedBadAssInACan Sealed Badass in a Can] is unleashed to [[Rip and Tear]] once more.

No, seriously, you're told to "Rip and Tear until it is done" in the opening narration.

The original was very mod-friendly in its day, and several mods and fan-games are available for the first two titles. One of the most famous is the [http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom Brutal Doom] mod, that adds lots of dismemberment and gore to the game, but also a number of gameplay tweaks to give weapons useful trade-offs rather than each being a strict upgrade of the last, and "Glory Kills," melee-based finishers (then known as "fatalities" - yes, there is Sub-Zero's "rip skull along with the spine" finishing move). There is also [http://doom.chaosforge.org/ Doom the Roguelike], which somehow does a very good job of merging the notoriously cerebral and complex gameplay of a roguelike with the fast-paced demon-blasting of ''Doom'' into a surprisingly successful experience. Both included elements that were grafted onto the May 2016 Doom.

Doom Eternal was announced at E3 and a gameplay reveal was shown at Quakecon. From the look of it, it's glorious. Set on a demonically infested Earth and apparently in some new dimensions. The Doom Slayer has a shitload of new abilities such as a shoulder mounted flamethrower, a retractable arm blade, A FUCKING DEMON SWORD, a super shotgun with a grappling hook and shitloads of other toys. Some demons from the old Doom have returned (such as the Arch Vile and Arachnotron). The designs have also been updated; for example the Mancubus looks more like its Doom II design, and the Baron of Hell has arm blades. There is also an awesome feature called "Destructible Demons", where demons will actually show more damage on their bodies. There will also be a player mode called Invasion, a Dark Souls-inspired feature where players can join another player's campaign and fight them as demons (it can be turned off if you want). Overall a lot of amazing things are in this game.

Also check out [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Bx4G3bOu4 this video where the Doom Slayer's presence scares the shit out of humans and demons alike]. Even considering that humanity is already being reduced to sniveling, boot-licking cowards (if the topquote is any indication), that's a hell of a feat.

===Comic===
The only thing you need to know about it is that it's a masterpiece of absurdity and comedy that only the 90's could make. Sure, it's only one issue that was released back in the days of the first games, but each page of it was just that fucking [[Rip and Tear|'''STUPID''']] that you had to see it to believe it!

[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/ No, really. '''READ IT'''.]

===Board Game===
Yes, there is a Board Game - made by [[Fantasy Flight Games]] no less - giving the vague '/tg/ related' qualifications this site uses.
It was released around the time Doom 3 was released, though it wasn't that remarkable and is pretty hard to find nowadays.

One guy plays the baddies, the other 1-4 players play a band of unfortunate marines. The heroes start with 2-3 powerup cards, and the baddies get 5 cards from his own deck and during the game, he gets to draw more (the rate of which is equal to how many marines there are) and if his deck is empty, he gets to insta-kill one of the Marines. His guys are more varied in their movement but they can only shoot once.

The marines have three options: move 8 spaces without shooting, move 4 spaces and shoot once, or shoot twice without movement. They need to explore the board, find computers and other events as the board provides. The baddies, meanwhile, can either upgrade his monsters or bring more to the board.
Either way, his goal is to score 6 kills on the Marines.

A new board game got released shortly after May 2016 Doom, which, to my understanding, is basically just the same shit as before with a new coat of paint.

===Movie===
Also (roughly) around the same time as Doom 3 was a movie starring Karl Urban and former WWE superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It pretty much replaced the whole Hell plot with some genetic experimentation to give people superpowers that only succeeds in creating hyper-aggressive mutants, and a squad of Marines sent to investigate the mayhem. It wasn't that good, with the only really 'good' scene being this one scene where it's all FPS-style like the original games and has monster killing.

[[Category:Video Games]]

Araghast the Pillager

2018-08-15T02:55:56Z

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[[File:Cr_csm_araghast_movie.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Give me a challenge.]]
{{topquote|Blood Ravens, hear me! I am Araghast the Pillager!|Araghast to the Blood Ravens}}

'''Araghast the Pillager of a thousand worlds, Master of Hounds, the Lash of the Black Legion, Champion of the Chaos Gods''' (also known as Lord Araghast or simply Araghast) was the [[Chaos Lord]] (Or more specifically, a Chaos Terminator Lord) leading [[Black Legion|a Black Legion]] [[Warband of Subsector Aurelia| War-band]] on Aurelia. Arrogant, bloodthirsty, [[Manly Marines|manly]], [[awesome|awesome]] and very boastful and prone to taunt. Feared far and wide for his terrible savagery, and among the greatest warriors of the Black Legion. He wields a great many weapons, including a power/daemon sword, a combi-bolter, a combi-flamer, lightning claws (of an older design than loyalist variations, meaning that rather than giving you wolverine type claws while leaving your fingers free, the actual claw part is placed over your fingers. So basically he's lady deathstrike, pretty appropriate if you bring cyrus along).

He is also notable as one of only <s>three</s> <s>two</s> three badasses the Black Legion has ever produced (the other <s>two</s> one being Horus <s>and Eliphas</s> he was a Word Bearer, duh - and that says a lot about how awesome Araghast is), and being one of the only three people who have ever lived up to the awesomeness of their Legion's paintjob. A revived Araghast may end up Sindri'ing Abaddon and thus replace the Warmaster with someone who is actually <s>halfway</s> competent (Nah I'd say "halfway competent" describes Araghast pretty well. Lacking a functional Sindri detector is a problem for Chaos Lords it seems), which is a major step up from Abaddon who can't even manage to be a quarterwit.

The wet dream of every Chaos fan is for [[Eliphas]], Araghast, [[Nemeroth]] and [[Sindri Myr]] to form an unstoppable dream team and lead the forces of Chaos to GLORY.

== Chaos Rising ==
He invades Aurelia. Inciting rebellions and incursions and sending out various strike forces to attack Imperial worlds on Aurelia. On one of the missions,he is seen, along with Eliphas, watching as the blood ravens escape. Araghast states that he allowed them to escape because killing them will now will lose the value of the traitor within their ranks (A rather rare and sneaky feat for one who serves [[Khorne|A Gigantic Bloodthirsty Maniac who has a fetish for Skulls]]). He later challenges the Blood Ravens to a battle (Which he soon learns is a mistake he will not live to learn from). Nearing death, he calls for Eliphas to open a portal. But Eliphas, being the awesomest Chaos Lord ever shat out by Relic (but also a motherfucking bastard), [[Sindri Myr|leaves him to his fate]]. He still manages to wound the Blood Ravens rather nicely. Slaughtering many of their followers, destroying their worlds as they did nothing, and managed to put up a much better fight than the Tyranid Hive Tyrant Alpha at the end of the first game. Unless you used [[Davian Thule]]. Or [[Cyrus]]. Or [[Tarkus]]. Or [[Rape| all three of them.]]

Though the poor Hive Tyrant was mobbed by all five squads of blood ravens, Davian Thule, and Gabriel Angelos all at the same time while Araghast only had to fight four of the seven Blood Raven characters/squads at once, although these four were most likely shitting cheese everywhere with the new upgrades and their possible [[Heresy]] rating. While he had more health (about 25,000 hit points more or so) than the Tyrant Alpha, he had the same Goddamn DPS as the Hive Tyrant Alpha, which is to say, if you had the same fucking OP gear, NONE AT FUCKING ALL BECAUSE HE CAN'T PIERCE TERMINATOR ARMOR OR DAVIAN THULE'S SHELL. Sadly, due to this faggotry, he proves to be a lesser challenge than freaking [[Ulkair]], [[Eliphas]], or [[Martellus|Martellus' Predator of HAX]], who were just painful unless you had Chaos Powers. Oh, sweet, sweet Chaos Powers... But Araghast is and always will be more fun to fight, hititng just the right balance of fun and challenge. Even so, he can one-shot three Terminators with a fireball and at least does some more damage than the friggin Tyrant Alpha. He also seems to get his MOTHERFUCKING game on at his last quarter of health and beats the shit outta everything. Khorne knows why he didn't do that at the beginning, but I digress. And even so, a single Chaos Lord putting up such a fight against 11 Blood Raven Terminators, three scouts, a librarian and a (most likely Venerable) Dreadnought is an act of complete badassery.

He was also both outdamaged and outhealthed by Martellus and Eliphas. Martellus was just pure utter bullshit to fight, his DPS was ungodly, which is made worse by his long range, he called in ungodly large hordes of minions to help him, his armor type is difficult to pierce with most weapons, and he has a fuckton of health. Eliphas somehow has more health than Araghast despite wearing neither terminator armor nor a helmet (and Martellus' tank, don't question it), and can summon giant shrines to Khorne that let FUCKLOADS of Bloodletters fight alongside him and Tzeentch Shrine doombolt spewers are just pure utter bullshit. And bullshit high melee damage. Seriously, Araghast (and any of the traitors other than Martellus) was the only fun major boss to fight.

== About Araghast ==
[[Image: C33.png|thumb|right|Apparently someone found him waifu material. Damn bastard.]]
[[butthurt|He died too fucking early in the franchise, '''THAT IS WHAT WE KNOW OF HIM'''. '''BRING BACK ARAGHAST!!!''']]

He is an Exalted Champion of Khorne with warp powers...GG relic (Just like Carron and Crull. However, unlike them, <s>he's not JUST a raging maniac, he's a raging maniac who's feared and respected for his phenomenal fighting ability. Something Khorne expects unconditionally from his Champions.Black Legion, and therefore Undivided. </s>He just leans more heavily towards Khorne.)So it is important to note that he is not exclusively devoted to Khorne as he made extensive usage of sorcerers within his Grand Company (the Legiones Astartes version of a chapter) and he himself relied on sorcery in his last battle, teleporting away to catch his breath every now and then and quite clearly intended to flee the scene when he asked Eliphas to open a portal after being reduced to having naught but a small sliver of health.

As stated above, he is very boastful and among his many exploits is the ravaging of a thousand worlds (Which is totally badass. Again, as is stated above, he is prone to excessive taunting. He constantly mocks the Blood Ravens by calling them "Lowly Lick-Spittles", "Dead and Useless as the Empra",and <s>insulted</s> trolled them further by calling them "Brothers", a fad that seems to be growing amongst Chaos Space Marines since Eliphas, it seems. He seems to treat Eliphas quite well. Though like all Chaos Lords,he still treats him (rightly) as a lowly, defenseless, dependent, lickspittle coward. '''<s>Which Eliphas was until Retribution</s>'''. Still, he was in Chaos Rising.

He may have sent said incompetent sorcerer to Calderis to attack the Blood Raven initiates with the full knowledge that the sorcerer would probably not make it out alive in order to dispose of his potential threat to his leadership and thus avoid being Sindri'd. He may have also done the same to his Plague champion on Typhon for the same reason. But alas, he still ended up getting Sindri'd, by Eliphas.

Apart from his personality, he's also very powerful. And to prove this point, here's something that will make it perfectly clear: '''HE'S WEARING FUCKING TERMINATOR ARMOR''' and [[Abaddon| unlike some other incompetent fuckwad of the Black Legion]] instead of staying in the back coordinating what, where, and when shit happens, he's out in the front lines putting that heavy clunky hunk of armor to good use (and admittedly he's rather great at it).

== Trivia ==
*Many fans, at first, thought of him as Eliphas, as he is voiced by <strike>Paul Dobson</strike> Fred Tatasciore, who did an impersonation of Paul Dobson. (Who was the original voice of Eliphas during Dark Crusade). In skirmish mode, he is voiced by Steve Blum (That guy who does Cyrus' sexy voice) and he does a [[Awesome|FUCKAWESOME]] job of it!! The voice is gonna become lower and angrier in the Retribution. To the delight of some, and the anguish of others. Fuckin' unpleasable fanbases.
*Of all the other previous [[Chaos Lord|Chaos Lords]] (Bale, Crull, Carron) he almost approaches Eliphas' badassery, The only thing negative about him is his habit of making [[FAIL|fatal mistakes]]. Like challenging the [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|Force Commander Hairgel]] and his squad which resulted in getting his ass whooped. Another is trusting Eliphas to oversee the teleportations which resulted in Eliphas SINDRIII'ing him. Despite this, he actually put up a pretty good fight, and even when he was on death's door, when Eliphas refused to open a portal to take him home, he managed to use his last ounce of strength to [[Rage|RAGE]] at Eliphas as if he wasn't horribly injured (which he was) and make his last (but somewhat futile) stand against the Blood Ravens. To be fair, as stated above, he does get his game on and goddammit, is it awesome.
*He cannot say anything without a '''MASSIVE''' amount of ham and makes up for the lack of hammy lines in Dawn of War 2 on his own. He is then promptly outhammed by Ulkair.
*Some have considered him as the Chaos equivalent of Christopher Walken, given how batshit insane and tremendously awesome the two are. Though unlike Christopher Walken, Araghast is not prone to spouting bizarre non-sequiturs right the fuck out of nowhere (Jelly Donut, Jelly Donut...) that tend to leave listeners so mystified that they don't even know where they are. His remarks just leave them paralyzed in frustration. As was the case with Avitus. And depending on how pure the player is, him too.
*Araghast has seen [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] and was disappointed by its low production values, storyline, inaccurate portrayal of Loyalist and Chaos Space Marines, but praised its music and voice acting. He hopes that fan film The Lord Inquisitor will be better.
*He resurrects the old [[Warriors of Chaos]] style in his armour. No seriously, check him out!

== Memes ==
'''ELIPHAS OPEN THE PORTAL! ELIPHAS OPEN THE PORTAL! ELIPHAS OPEN THE PORTAL! ELIPHAS OPEN THE-'''

No, I think not.

ELIPHAS!! NOOOOOOOO!!!! YOU TREASONOUS DOG!!!!

Oh yeah, and the rant below possibly counts.

== See Also ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khg2BAZJ10A Blood Ravens, hear me! I am Araghast The Pillager! Master of Hounds, the Lash of the Black Legion! You, and ALL your kind are COWARDS! LOWLY LICKSPITTLES! You must be emulating that pathetic pile of bones you call your Emperor! You are as dead and as useless as him! I am destroying your ''worlds'', Blood Ravens, yet you do nothing! I see your precious craft, hanging in orbit above Aurelia! I AM HERE! FACE ME, IF YOU DARE!!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEwwmEQ50-s&p=2A838601ED418CBF&playnext=1&index=32 BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWuoT2HgFc The Blood Ravens thank the Black Legion for this generous gift.]

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